Thanks for the help, I'm going to check into it and see what I come up with. I think that my method of backup is actually fairly common (DVD Shrink is probably the most common backup tool available). I have tried per episode and I find two things:

1. Backing up to avi diminishes quality
2. It's a pain in the...to figure out where one episode begins and what ends because they don't match .vob's to episode numbers, this turns it into an almost guessing game -- someone has told me that there is software available that will do it for me, but I'm happy with k9copy so, I think the quality of the backup is great and I also like the dvd menus and what not when I want to play something using VLC.

Forgot to mention also that they aren't .iso's, they are just folders, DVDShrink and DVD Decrypter, K9Copy, etc... just basically move the vob's to folders and somehow compress them down to about 4 gigs (or less). Between those three programs I think that there are a ton of people who have this type of setup

Lastly, I have to make an nfo file for each show? Is this normal? I'm still not getting why my foo.401.avi didn't get detected, unless it is necessary to do a .nfo file in each location. Thanks again, really appreciate the help (I have spent hours trying to solve this so I'm definitely trying to pull my own weight )

ok, thank you. I am now starting a project to reference TVDB as a mythtv job which will first access the mythtvdb, then get the showname and the episodename, then access TVDB, get the showID from the showname [url=http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname="family%20guy"]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname="family%20guy"[/url] <<family guy, grab the XML for the showID which contains all tvdb information about the show including season and episode http://www.thetvdb.com/api/3B81A89C73E4E...all/en.xml, then rename the show to showname - SxxExx (episodename)

There are definitely others interested in this as I have gotten a couple responses in another forum from people awaiting if I'm able to make progress....xexe I really appreciate any advice/help/assistance you can give, I know your time is valuable

yeah, that is entirely possible. if you look at the values I listed, they are all origonal air date, I removed the worthless recording dates. how do I name my files for an origonal air date? I tried looking at regex but it's like greek.

I am pretty sure its just american date format you insert in. But if your going to the effort of looking up an airdate you might as well add season and ep which is far more reliable with better coverage.

To get MythTV recordings in the library, use MythSExx. It's a program I created to be run as a user job after each show for the purpose of renaming episodes recorded by MythTV
Show Name.SxxExx (Episode Title).exthttp://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=MythSExx
I hope it helps someone looking for information on that here.

outleradam Wrote:Just as a follow-up to something I posted earlier in here...

To get MythTV recordings in the library, use MythSExx. It's a program I created to be run as a user job after each show for the purpose of renaming episodes recorded by MythTV
Show Name.SxxExx (Episode Title).exthttp://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=MythSExx
I hope it helps someone looking for information on that here.

It works well!

Nice follow up. :0

I have managed to fid the problem with the current REGEX. Essentially XBMC mis captures a load of files and since this regex appends to the native XBMC regex it would never work.

Changing most to prepend makes it work again.

However the exclude REGEX still doesnt work and I am at a complete loss why and how to check any further. Waiting for a dev in IRC to assist.

The source of the exclude REGEX issues has been traced thanks to some real time support by Vdrfan. Essentially the logic of how the REGEX is applied is not what is implied in the wiki (or it can be read more than one way).

Some code changes are happening and once they make it into the SVN (hopefully) I will post a new set with some nice new additions.